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WESTERN LEADER, NOVEMBER 11, 2010
Don't let hearing loss tone you down.
SAVE BIG $$$
on Hearing Aids*
CALL 524 5736
or visit www.appliedhearing.co.nz
REMUERA HEAD CLINIC
232 GREAT SOUTH RD
AHCSB144MWL
FREE hearing test for 50+
FREE professional follow-up for 1 year
MINIMUM 60 day trial
INSTANT fitting options
* Budget aids start from under $1000. If buying 2
digital aids, our second aid at half-price offer can
easily save you $1000 or more! Conditions apply.
HENDERSON MEDICAL
CENTRE, CNR MONTEL AVE
&GREAT NORTHRD
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Selina's Hair & Beauty Studio
Selina's Hair & Beauty Studio
By Appointments Only
West Harbour
Phone 4161330
Cell 021930207
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Health&
well-beingAdvertising Feature
New technique promises clearer speech
Applied Hearing: From left
audiometrist Jeff Green and
audiologist Alan Ferguson
use new speech mapping
to re-programme the aids of
Mrs Peg Mayall.
A promising new tech-
nique called speech map-
ping is now available in
Applied Hearing clinics
to make speech sounds
clearer for hearing aid
wearers.
The standard hearing
aid set-up is based
around your ability to
hear steady signals such
as artificial tones and
noise.
Applied Hearing
audiologist Alan Fer-
guson says speech map-
ping goes one step
further by feeding in
dynamic signals such as
speech -- for example
your spouse s voice -- or
random speech noise
through loudspeakers.
The results measured
by a tiny probe micro-
phone by the eardrum
are displayed on a com-
puter screen to let you
see what is being heard,
and how the hearing aids
are matching the target.
If you still have some
difficulty or discomfort
understanding speech --
even if your aids were fit-
ted years ago -- this tech-
nique will reprogramme
your aids to address
this, he says. That s
better than leaving them
gathering dust in the
drawer, and at a fraction
of the cost of new instru-
ments.
Studies so far suggest
that this assessment of
your hearing aid s per-
formance can be more
accurate, and lead to bet-
ter treatment and out-
comes.
This is because:
An accurate first-time
fitting goes a long way
towards long-term hear-
ing aid satisfaction.
You and your family
become part of the verifi-
cation process that lets
you see what is being
heard, and how the
special features of the
aid are working. If your
hearing aid can provide
only limited speech audi-
bility, this limitation can
also be demonstrated.
Better programming of
the hearing aid results in
making speech clearer,
while avoiding loudness
discomfort.
The speech mapping
process takes about 45
minutes, including a new
hearing test. The result
is much better speech
perception with your
aids, and some amazing
information that will
help you understand how
your aid works.
Speech mapping is
available at Applied
Hearing s clinics at Hen-
derson Medical Centre
and 232 Great South Rd,
Remuera. Bringing along
this article will save you
another $10 off the
speech mapping cost of
$140 per aid.
Remember to bring
along someone you regu-
larly speak with, either a
family member or friend
because they too, can
participate.
Applied Hearing, the
oldest private hearing aid
clinic in New Zealand,
offers a FREE compre-
hensive hearing test,
including audiogram and
ear examination, to
anyone aged 50 years
plus.
Call Applied Hearing on
524 5736 to arrange an
appointment at your
closest clinic.
Pedalling for a cause
Two young men, a Kiwi
and a German, are cyc-
ling from North Cape to
Bluff in an effort to raise
money for Rotary s cam-
paign to end polio.
Xaver Hausner is a 24
year old German student
from Bavaria who has
spent a year at Victoria
University in Wellington
as a Rotary Ambassa-
dorial Scholar. He and
his best Kiwi mate Ollie
Macindoe (23) are both
keen cyclists and to
mark their year together
they wanted to do some-
thing memorable.
We decided on a big
bike ride from one end of
the country to the other.
It s adventure our way.
We wanted to com-
bine the adventure with
supporting a good cause.
We chose the End Polio
Now campaign which
Rotary is running world-
wide, and thought that
we could publicise the
cause along the way, the
men say.
Now it is quite a big
deal. Rotary Clubs along
our route are going to be
fundraising for us, as
well as helping us out
with accommodation and
food.
We ve got a website
and we ll be blogging
each day on our
adventures.
See
www.polio.org.nz.
Xaver and Ollie leave
Cape Reinga
on
Wednesday November 24
and are scheduled to be
in Bluff on Sunday Janu-
ary 16, 2011.
The North Island leg
ends in Wellington on
December 21.
The End Polio Now
campaign is a worldwide
initiative by Rotary
International to elimin-
ate the disease in the
last four remaining
countries where it still
occurs -- in parts of India,
Pakistan, Afghanistan
and Nigeria.
For the last 25 years
Rotary has been working
with the World Health
Organisation
and
UNESCO to eradicate
polio throughout the
world, and the campaign
has been supported by
grants from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foun-
dation for over USD $220
million.
The cyclists route
takes them from Cape
Reinga to Auckland and
then through the Bay of
Plenty and around the
East Cape to Gisborne,
and then down the
Wairarapa to Wellington
arriving just before
Christmas. They then
head to the South Island
and ride down the West
Coast to Queenstown
and into Southland end-
ing up in Bluff on 16
January.